National Breastfeeding Awareness Month has come to a close, but it's important to recognize that this movement needs attention all year in order to support nursing moms:
World Health Organization
and The American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that babies consume breast milk exclusively for the first six months of life. Babies who are given breastmilk not only receive “nature’s perfect food,” but benefit from the immune-boosting antibodies that stave off a host of infectious diseases. Breastmilk, often referred to as “liquid gold” is nearly priceless per ounce.
Ask any working mother, and she’ll likely tell you that breastfeeding and pumping is like having another job. And it is. By conservative estimates it. It’s one more thing that she needs to prep for and manage throughout the workday and week. And since working mothers are always up against the clock, the last thing they need is to be concerned about the minutes ticking away and the thought of making up that time.
Yes, pumping takes time, but in the scheme of their tenure, what are a few months of additional breaks?, under no circumstances should working mothers ever be forced to make up lost time . Not only is it unnecessary, but it keeps working mothers from spending that time with their babies. This time in a working mother’s career is temporary and can be made less stressful by those folks supporting her at home and in the office.
I was not one of those mothers that made it to six months. Breastfeeding was difficult enough while I was on parental leave, and heading back to work, lugging my hospital grade pump back and forth to the office each day, did not make things any easier. In one office, I found myself taping paper to the glass walls of a conference room that didn't even have a lock.
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